Genetic history of hepatitis C virus in East Asia.
The hepatitis C virus (HCV), which currently infects an estimated 3% of people worldwide, has been present in some human populations for several centuries, notably HCV genotypes 1 and 2 in West Africa and genotype 6 in Southeast Asia. Here we use newly developed methods of sequence analysis to condu...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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